Improvement in hemming-guides for sewing-machines



S. D. OGBURN.

Hemming Guide for Sewing Machines. No. 58,670. Patented- Oct 9,- 1866.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

S. D. OGBUBN, OF SPRINGFIELD, TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT lN HEMMlNG-GUIDES FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,670, dated October 9, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, S.D. OGBURN, of Springfield, in the county of Robertson and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Hemming-Guide for Sewing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the nature, construction, and operation of the same, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to which it appertains to construct and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are made part of this specification, and in which my improvement is represented by perspective views.

In the drawings, A is a plate, which lies upon the cloth-plate, having a slotted bar to permit adjustment of the plate, which is then secured in the required position.

The plate B, which rises from the cloth plate, has in it several curved slits, which all run into one. The cloth lies under the plate. Its edge is turned up into and occupies one of these curved slits, being thereby bent over so as to be flattened into a hem of the required width by the plate D, under which it passes.

E is a movable pin, which occupies such one of the holes as agrees with the width of hem, the edge of the hem being against the side of the pin, and its duty is to regulate the width of the hem in front and assistin turning down the edge of the goods.

As a substitute for the pin, a slide fastened by a thumb-screw may be used.

Instead of mere slits, as in the flange B, a scroll, as shown in Fig. 2, may be used, the same general feature being shown therein, consisting in the provision of a slit or slits in a raised flange placed transversely to the track of the cloth, the latter occupying the slit, and the extent of its curvature or the width of its fold or lap being limited by the length of the slit, the end of the slit forming a boundary, against which the edge of the cloth traverses, a single thickness of cloth occupying the slit which controls the width of the hem.

Having thus fully described my improvement in hemmingguides for sewing-machines, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The plate B, arranged, as shown, with several curved slits as measures of quantity for different widths of hem.

2. In combination with the above, the removable pin E in the plate D, as and for the purpose described.

S. D. OGBURN.

Witnesses:

BOYD M. OHEATHAM, G. W. DAVIS. 

